For Prime Minister Keir Starmer, it continues a careful strategy of avoiding worse outcomes on tariffs and the war in Ukraine while showing that Britain has a foot in the door on technologies such as ...
The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.
In 2022, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu unveiled a monument of Col. John Pennycuick in his English hometown of Camberley. The inscription described him in characteristically Indian ...
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, ...
We can learn profound truths about a nation from its military adventures – not just the daring ones, but the bungled ones too ...
In 1955, the British Empire planted the Union flag in its last piece of territory – a bleak, uninhabited rock. A Royal Navy commander told the BBC about securing Rockall.
Livia Firth, Colin Firth’s ex-wife and a leading environmental activist, has destroyed her MBE in protest of the Royal Family ...
Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ”Springville,” is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed ...
Britain's surrender of Singapore has long been viewed as a "humiliation". Now, a series of exhibits and tours are revealing ...
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